Thus hetherto ye haue heard and seen howe this meeke flock of Christes members were brought vp in bandes to London. Nowe the counsell & the bishops perceiuing the number, & fearåg belike to put thē to death being so many together, lest some disturbaūce might ryse peraduenture vpon the same among the people, decreed so with them selues, that they shoulde make their submission or confession, as they would them selues, and so to be dismissed: the copie of whiche their submission was this.

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BEcause our sauiour Christe at his last supper tooke breade, and when he hadde geuen thankes, he brake it, and gaue it vnto his disciples & sayde: take eate, this is my body whiche is geuen for you, this do in the remembraunce of me. Therfore according to the words of our sauiour Iesus Christe, we doe beleue in the sacrament, to be Christes body. And lykewyse he toke the cuppe, gaue thankes, and gaue it to his disciples and sayde, this is my bloud of the newe testament, whiche is shed for many. Therefore lykewyse we dooe beleue that it is the bloud of Christe, accordynge as Christes church doth minister the same, vnto the which catholique churche of Christe, we doe in this lyke, as in all other matters submit our selues, promysing therein to lyue as it becometh good Christen men, and here in this realme to vse our selues as it becometh faythfull subiectes vnto our moste graciouse kyng and Quene, & to al other superiors, both spirituall and temporall, according to our bounden duties.

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Iohn Atkine, Alyn Symson, Richard George, Thomas Fyrefanne, William Munt, Rychard Iolye, Rycharde Gratwycke, Thomas Wynsley, Rychard Rothe, Richard Clearke, Stephan Glouer, Robert Colman, Thomas Merse, William Bongeor, Robert Bercock, Margeret Hide, Elyn Ewring, Christiā Pepper, Margeret Feld, Alice Munt, Ioane Winsley, Cysly Warren, Rose Alin, Anne Whitlock, George Barker, Iohn Saxbye, Thomas Locker, Alice Locker.

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MarginaliaAprill. 12.THe learned beyng by this tyme (in a maner all) dispatched in the furious rage of persecutiō, we nowe haue litle or small matter, to wryte touching the other seely shepe and symple lambes of Christe his flock (yet remayning behynd) vpon whom they satisfied styll their bloud thursty & slaugh

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terous affections. I thought it therfore not beside the matter, to admonyshe the Reader, to iudge of them, and of suche others before specified, as of the deare elect chyldren and true martyrs of God,Marginalia1. Cor. 2. by whose simplicitie the mercifull wysdome and myghtie power of God was more manifested and shewed, who hath chosen in them the foolyshe and weake thinges of this worlde, to confounde the wyse and myghtie ones, and thynges that are not, to brynge to naught thynges that are. And as touthynge those of whome there is no matter mencioned in this historie,  

as occasions of their death, for that none as yet came to my handes, this one sure and only cause is certainly to be adiudged generally to them, that it was for the syncere profession of Christes Gospell. And as for the reste, of whome out of the Registers notes, somewhat is and shalbe sayde, though there maye sometyme appeare in their aunsweres & confessions to the Byshops and others, before whome they were examined, a certen ignorāce and lacke of knowlege in some poyntes, which for the moste parte is made worse by the vnfaythfull dealing of the Registers, neuerthelesse this is to be wayed and truly considered, that in the chiefe and principall grounde and foundation of their religion and faythe they swarued not, laying Iesus Christ for their corner stone, as the moste perfect proppe and sure foundation of their building. Vpon whome al beit it semeth they buylt sometime through ignoraunce, stouble or haye (& the rather through the Papistes craftie couching of their interrogatories) yet that beyng consumed by the fire of Gods holy spirite, they them selues through the same spirite abyde stil both saulfe and sure. Marginalia1. Cor. 3.And therfore in hope of this charitable & true iudgement, I will proceade to the prosecuting of our historie, wherein you shall vnderstande (the persecution yet continuing) there were about the xii. daye of Aprill. An. 1557. these fyue burned at Lōdō in Smithfield, vz.MarginaliaMartyrs.

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Thomas Loseby.
Henry Ramsey.
Thomas Thyrtell.
Margaret Hyde, &
Agnes Stanley.

Who being, some by the Lord Riche, some by other Iustices of peace, and constables, (their owne neyghbours) at the first accused, and apprehended for not comming to their parishe churches, were in the ende sent vnto Boner Byshop of London, and by his commaundement the xxvii. daye of Ianuary, were examined before Doctor Darbyshyer, then Chauncelor to the sayde Byshop, vpon these former generall articles mencioned, Pag. 1451. whose aunsweres thereunto were, that as they confessed there was one true & catholique church,

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